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Everything we understand about this planet is grounded in the fundamental assumption that the earth is round.

我们对这个星球的所有认知都是基于地球是圆的这个基础之上的。

But there was a time not all that long age when we knew that the earth was flat,which was called a paradigm shift.

但不久之前的一段时间，我们都认为地球是平的，这种思维上的转变被称之为范式转变。

Our basic assumptions about the earth changed because we had evidence showing that our previous assumption were wrong.

我们对地球的设想从根本上发生了改变,因为我们有证据证明它们是错的。

Just like the shape of the earth,there are assumptions about autism,too.

正如对于地球的形状一样，人们对自闭症也存在一些设想。

It through medical assumptions that most people understand autism as a medical condition or a disorder even as a tragedy,which through medical assumptions.Autism causes deficits in social interaction,deficits in communication,restricted and repetitive behaviors,sensory processing deficits.It is an alternative way of thinking about autism as a part of the range of natural variation in human neurological development by actual autistic people .At its very simplest,autism is a different way of thinking.

人们对自闭症的认知大多从医学角度出发，认为这是一种病症或一种失调，甚至是一种悲剧。自闭症会导致患者社交能力低下，与人交流不畅，重复某些特定的行为，感知能力差。但通过自闭症患者的自述，我们从另一角度来理解，自闭症其实是人类神经发展过程中的自然变异。简单的说，自闭症其实是一种特殊的思维方式。

Maybe you can not tell just by looking at autism,but they are disabled,too.They not disabled by their autism,thought which by their environment.This is another paradigm shift.The way that we are used to thinking about disability is an individual problem which based on a model called the medical model of disability.But it is called the social model of disability,which happens when a person environment dosent cater for their individual characteristics.Instead,we use the word disabled as a verb,they are actively being “dis-abled”,by the society around us.

可能你从他们的外表看不出来什么，但他们确实是残疾了。这也是一种范式转变。通常人们认为残疾是医学上的一种模型，是属于个人问题。但是，把残疾建立在社会模型上，它的出现则是因为环境不能满足个人的需求。那么，残疾就变成了一个动词，相应的，自闭症患者就是“被残疾”的,而实施者就是我们所处的社会。

It is a horrible figure that autistic people are nine times more likely than the general population to die by suicide.They deserve better.

自闭症人群的自杀概率要比正常人高九倍，这是令人心惊的。他们应该得到更好的对待。

We need to recognize that maybe acting less weird is not the best outcome for an autistic person by a paradigm shift in the way that we think about autism.They need services and supports that will help them to live long,happy,and fulfilling lives while respecting their right to be authentically autistic.

我们需要从根本上转变我们对自闭症的认知，认识到，可能恢复正常并不是自闭症人群最需要的。他们需要的是更多的服务和支持，使他们能够拥有幸福充实的一生，同时给予足够的尊重和包容。

Because the earth is not flat and they are not a tragedy.

地球不是平的，而他们也不会是一个悲剧。